Primus stove

[ prahy-muhs ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of portable oil stove used by campers and the like.

Example Sentences

Shelves were chipped out at a moment's notice for primus stove, spirit bottle, matches, kerosene and other oddments.

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The supply of kerosene for the primus stove promised to be ample, for none of it had been lost in the accident.

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We pushed on to find a place in which to camp, as there was scarcely safe standing-room for a primus stove.

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We took turns at reading 'The Virginian', warmed by a primus stove which in a land of plenty we could afford to keep going.

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Then Ray went out and soon returned with a sealed tin of oil from the wrecked plane, with which he lit the primus stove.

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